ONE CHEER FOR DEMOCRACY

 MAGA Republicans have sold their souls to a demon named Donald J. Trump.

I don't know, maybe this is a smart move. Since being convicted of 34 felonies, Trump has hauled in massive amounts of money from concerned donors. Some of that loot might even be used to run for president, though undoubtedly the matter of paying legions of lawyers will have to take the first and biggest bite.

Republicans who used to excoriate Trump for his misdeeds are now slobbering all over the man, trying to find a new place to plant a big nasty one. These folks know the slightest sign of disloyalty would cost them their political careers.

And no way is the fate of this country as important to them as their continued time in the political limelight.

So they blast away, parroting Trump's lies, a fat list of them even pledging to obstruct any Democratic attempt to legislate relief of any kind to any American, all in protest of the fictional weaponization of the DOJ.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is also apparently willing to put his immortal soul in jeopardy to bear false witness on behalf of his new spiritual leader. Now that's commitment on a higher level, the man willing to spend eternity in hell with Donald  J. Trump.

(The ex-president probably thinks he has already worked out a deal with god to avoid hell and regain the White House. Perhaps he could mandate that every American have the Ten Commandments tattooed on their foreheads. Surely an Old Testament god would cream his jeans for something like that.)

The Shadow President assures Johnson he's doing a great job as Speaker, something the man could not omit saying in front of news cameras. Bless his little heart. Hearing praise from the Big Guy might be his only reward in this life.

(Or maybe not. Should lightning strike the newly elected prez and his veeply lapdog, Johnson would become president. Does the man who talks to god think he has that deal locked up? Remember, self-delusion is among a human being's most favorite pastimes.)

Loyalty to Trump could cripple the government for the next three months or so, but what if the man loses again? Chaos in the streets? Guns and blood everywhere, his heavily armed minions protesting this newest Biden-based outrage?

Will we get that new American Civil War we've all been promised?

MAGA critters are really getting their hopes up for victory in November. Is that a good idea? The Deep State stole the last election and nobody could ever figure out how that happened. What would stop it from happening again?

It all comes down to this. Our cherished form of government has from the beginning been on the road to ruin for one simple and unavoidable fact: In order to work, democracy relies on human beings, the most unreliable creatures on this planet.

People have to know what's going on and vote accordingly.

Unfortunately, human beings emphatically don't know what's going on. What's more, there's no evidence that if they did know they would be able to figure out what to do about it. And then actually do it.

The problem is (and the avowed point of this blog site), humans are massively defective mentally, a roadblock that is capable of defeating all the angels of our better nature. (Should they happen to exist, that is.)

Majority rule, right? Sure, but that's not guaranteed to be a good thing.

Should the white majority say so, all Hispanics and Asians would have to leave the country, and Black folks would go back to work picking cotton for free.

You say there are laws against that sort of thing? A mere technicality. Laws come and go, Bubba. Anything that can be built can be dynamited with ease.

(Buildings scheduled for demolition tend to come down on Sunday mornings around eleven, when traffic patterns thin out. But rest easy, church-goers. Once everything is all good and blowed up, we'll go back to honoring god by doing no work on Sundays ever again.)

Okay, I know: I'm being too cute by half. Blowing up existing law will probably be done late Friday afternoon, to avoid prime-time news cycles. Dynamite is not required, of course, but wouldn't it be a lot more dramatic to use it? Everything goes better with TNT.

GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS

The new Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity makes it virtually impossible to prosecute any official action taken by a president. Even trying to determine the person's motives are extremely hampered, to the point it may become moot if the action was criminal or not.

The American people might never find out.

Joe Biden, or whoever the Democrats put up against Trump, will absolutely have to defeat Trump at the polls to prevent a catastrophe.

But should the Dems fail, they'll have to Plan B the guy.

Which is okay.

Because apparently it would be legal for Biden to send Seal Team Six down to Mar-a-Lago to deal with Trump. Nothing fatal, you understand. Maybe just rendition the jerk to the International Space Station for a couple of years.

Kidnapping? says Biden. I have no idea what you're talking about.

Next problem? Trump's running mate and presumptive successor.

After that, Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House.

Repeat as necessary.

(They might have to add a new module to the ISS.)